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At OSHA summit, Maryland member describes workplace violence

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Union City Radio: Thu, October 13, 7:15am - 7:20am

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2-minute audio version of the Metro Washington Labor Council's Union City newsletter.

Your Rights at Work radio show: Thu, October 13, 1pm - 2pm

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This week's guests: Joe Maniscalco, WORK-BITES; Tom VanHeuvelen, "Being in a Union Means You Could Make $1.3 Million More Over Your Lifetime".

Maryland Labor Phone Bank: Thu, October 13, 6pm - 8pm

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At OSHA summit, Maryland member describes workplace violence

"One of the most looming issues for me is the prevalence of workplace violence, which has been so aggravated by understaffing and institutional failure to implement safety protocols." That was AFSCME Local 557 ([link removed] Council 3) steward Miriam Doyle (standing at right, in photo), speaking at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's first-ever [link removed] Workers' Voice Summit (Sept 27-29), in which workers told OSHA officials about the problems on the job and suggested ways to correct them. Doyle is a social worker at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, Maryland's maximum security hospital for the criminally insane. To underscore her point, Doyle discussed what happened to her former co-worker and friend Chris Yelen, also a social worker, who was attacked on May 5 by a patient in the psychiatric unit...[link removed] Read more here.


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"Are you ready to vote in the upcoming general election?" asks 1199SEIU Maryland/DC. "No time like the present to make sure you have a plan! Take two minutes today to think about your plan to vote and make sure you are ready! Registration deadline is October 18, 2022!" Click here for [link removed] Maryland voter reg lookup and here for [link removed] DC voting/registration info.


Labor Quote: Tom VanHeuvelen

"All this research that has been done shows that unions are really important for inequality, and that the demise of unions is a really important contributor to this growth of economic inequality and economic polarization."

Sociologist Tom VanHeuvelen is one of the co-authors of the paper "[link removed] The Cumulative Advantage of a Unionized Career for Lifetime Earnings"

just published in Cornell University's ILR Review. Hear him on today's Your Rights At Work (WPFW 89.3FM) at 1p.

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Sharecroppers' struggles for rights and power. Last week's show: [link removed] Socialist fairy tales.

American Federation of Labor votes to boycott all German-made products as a protest against Nazi antagonism to organized labor within Germany - 1934

More than 1,100 office workers strike Columbia University in New York City. The mostly female and minority workers win union recognition and pay increases - 1985

National Basketball Association cancels regular season games for the first time in its 51-year history, during a player lockout. Player salaries and pay caps were primary issue. The lockout lasted 204 days - 1998

- David Prosten

 

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